HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook

Creating combined complex filters

When displaying tables, we sometimes want to filter table elements using multiple criteria involving multiple columns. For example, given a table of people that contains information such as their name, age, and transportation method, we might only want to view the people older than 30 that use a bus for transportation. We might also want to filter people by name. To do this, we have to apply multiple filters, such as an age range filter, a multiple-choice filter, and a text filter, to the data at the same time. The easiest way to do this is to make a filter combination function.

Getting ready

We're going to assume that we're using the code from the Creating a sortable paginated table recipe, and we're going to add ...